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unusual facts about face transplant



Akdeniz University

On January 21, 2011, Turkish surgeon Dr. Ömer Özkan and his team successfully performed the country’s first-ever full face transplant at the university's hospital in Antalya.

Boston Med

From there the episode focuses on the partial face transplant performed by Bohdan Pomahač and a large team at Brigham and Women's on Jim Maki using Helfgot's donated face.

Hacettepe University Medical School

On February 24, 2011, Turkish surgeon Dr. Serdar Nasır and his team successfully performed the country’s second full face transplant at the university's hospital in Ankara after almost one month the first transplant of its sort in Turkey.

Isabelle Dinoire

The first partial face transplant surgery on a living human was performed on Dinoire on 27 November 2005 by Professor Bernard Devauchelle, assisted by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard at the Centre hospitalier Universitaire Nord in Amiens, France.

Jean-Michel Dubernard

Dr. Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on 23 September 1998, the first successful double hand transplant shortly thereafter (but not announced until 14 January 2004), and assisting Prof. Bernard Devauchelle perform the first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire on 27 November 2005.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery

Bernard Devauchelle a French oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Amiens University Hospital who in November 2005 successfully completed the first face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire.

Selahattin Özmen

An associate professor at the Gazi University in Ankara, he led the team that performed in 2012 Turkey's third face transplant.

Serdar Nasır

An associate professor at the Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, he led the team that performed in February 2012 the second full face transplant in Turkey.


see also

Akdeniz University

Ömer Özkan (born 1971), Associate Prof. Dr. at Institute of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, who performed the country's first full face transplant

Bernard Devauchelle

He is best known as the first surgeon to successfully complete the first face transplant in November 2005 at Amiens University Hospital.

Dover, Massachusetts

Bohdan Pomahač, plastic surgeon who led the team that performed the first full face transplant in the United States.

Gazi University

Turkey's third face transplant, a partial face transplant, was performed on March 17, 2012 on Hatice Nergis, a twenty-year-old woman, at the university's hospital by a team led by surgeon Dr. Selahattin Özmen.